Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother.

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!

Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive.

We who lose our footing have lost our way.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.